The man of God's creating is eternally and entirely perfect. He is so at one with the source of all good that he is inseparable from it. He is pure and free. His thought is unlimited. His abilities, qualities, faculties, and talents are continually and fully effective. His horizon is wide and beautiful. He is perpetuated in completeness. He is holy; he is satisfied.
As understood in Christian Science, and in accordance with the first chapter of the Bible, this real man, the creation, the image and likeness of the one creator, God, is the inheritor of every blessing, the possessor of an harmonious being and an abundant life. Is it not worth any sacrifice to learn to possess this life, to live it, to become conscious of the true status of being, and to prove an ability to experience progressively in each ascending hour the effect of this knowledge?
The word "sacrifice" usually causes thought to shrink back, to rebel. Pictures of relinquishment, giving up, doing without, flash before human thought. The five physical senses urge attention to their demands and vaunt the rights of mortals to forgo sacrifice. They ask: "Ills are plentiful, should there not be some balance, some material gain to offset the drudgery and disappointments? Should there not be some good?"
